Longchen Rabjam - The Decisive Experience

[Newest Reality]

10. Wonderful!

It's all reaching through the display spontaneously, arising as ornaments, adorning basic space.

Well, that's the question, huh? In the Hindu traditions there is neti, neti, and self-inquiry. It is logical in that you verify that you cannot be anything you can know. Is that true, or not? Ah, but that's only half-way! It is said: what good are questions at the beginning of knowledge and what questions can there be when the instrument of questioning is put aside? Nisargadatta was a real Master of those topics as a self-realized one. When it comes to the nature of thoughts, in this case we use a thorn to remove a thorn. This knowledge comes in, removes the ignorance and it, itself, leaves.

So, we get the instrument of questioning and it goes from there. However, to what avail; to what point?

There are beliefs, (the word goes back to the old Germanic, lief, which means to make up, so one is be-liefing in that case). There are concepts, (apparently so, I have never touched one), There is knowledge. All the fingers point at the moon of unmistakable, direct experience of suchness beyond knowing and not knowing. If you ask yourself if you are aware, how long does it take you to answer? How did you know it? Awareness, (which can be differentiated from consciousness, to be picky) is an important key. Your own awareness as presence never strays from Awakened Mind. Awareness can be said to be irreducible. That's easy to check.

Yes, that's just the nature of the intellect, so one can just let it do what it does and watch that. It all arises from one's mind naturally, it is only a matter of not repressing or indulging in them. It becomes evident then, what distraction means in Dharma. Distraction is what is to be emphasized here over the multiplicity of nama/rupa involved.